Monday, July 15, 2013

Just "Do everything!" -

Tired or not, sometimes there is a lot to get done.Tired Girl Jamie and I worked very closely for a time period, we were an official "Team" at the company we work at. During that time we would email everyday about what we had done and what our goals were the next day etc. One of us - I think it was her - said one evening that tomorrow she was going to "do everything" the next day. Ha! So that became our joke - we traded emails back and forth - This week, tomorrow, on Tuesday, etc. "I am going to do everything." Because that is how the list feels. Today I am going to - clean the whole house, get totally caught up at work, get groceries, cook dinner, run on the treadmill, pay bills, mail my thank you notes and neaten up the garage, master my new camera, iron my husband's shirts, start the book by my bed and find a good eyeliner that works. Today I will "do everything!" As a Tired Girl, sometimes I can barely change from pj's to jeans to go out in the world, and yet the list in my head is often simply "do everything today."I don't have a solution to this. It sucks.

So instead I do some things and other things the next day and some things never I guess, or not yet. I literally thought to myself the other day - "I am going to send that book to that person" - a book we discussed LITERALLY two and half years ago! Not cool. But when things suck it feels good to laugh about them - I think. That's my coping mechanism any way. So when the list gets longer and longer in my head I just think: Today I will do everything! And I realize the ridiculousness of the list (and expectations) I have created for myself. Here is a clip from the widely unacclaimed movie "I don't Know How She Does it," with Sarah Jessica Parker. I like the movie because I am the target audience, but no one else in the world seemed to like it. Regardless, you only have to watch the first 58 seconds of this clip and you will be saying - "Oh that's me.." Or maybe you won't. I don't know. You'll like this clip though. And if you are at work and supposed to be working you really don't even need the sound. Nothing says "I'm definitely not working over here," than the sounds of Sarah Jessica Parker's voice coming from your office. Anyone have a solution for the "Do everything today!" syndrome?

At least I didn't scratch off "do nothing." Although sometimes I want to put the most mundane things on my list just so I can scratch them off.